News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Riley Clark, M.D., has been named as the Statewide Clerkship Director for the SMHS Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Clark will also continue in his role as site Clerkship Director Fargo Campus. The primary duties and responsibilities of this position are to maintain clerkship curriculum, lead and collaborate with campus clerkship directors to improve quality […]
I am just back from a visit on behalf of the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME), the organization responsible for accrediting all medical schools in the United States. As I’ve mentioned before, the LCME operates under the purview of the U.S. Department of Education and relies on volunteers from the medical community (like me!) […]
Categories: From the Dean
One of the casualties of the COVID pandemic has been Dean’s Hour. In the years prior to 2020 we would typically host a series of guest presenters in-house – who would each give a talk on a healthcare topic – in the months between September and May. That said, even before the pandemic there had […]
One of the hot topics of discussion on campus relates to the compensation study by the Huron Consulting Group that is underway currently at UND. The Huron study was developed to augment the compensation analyses that UND has been doing for some time. Although this analysis of UND compensation remains a work in progress, I […]
As we welcome 2024 and students return to their studies, I thought it might be productive to outline some of the School’s priorities and areas of focus in this new year. Recall that UND, like most academic institutions, operates on an academic and fiscal year that runs from July to June, in contrast to the […]
Happy Primary Care Week 2023! Today is the final day of activities here (and elsewhere) celebrating primary care, the backbone of our healthcare system (especially in rural areas). There have been events each day this week at the SMHS coordinated by our Center for Rural Health and the North Dakota Rural Health Association. One of […]
In last week’s column I highlighted the contributions of Dr. Janet Jedlicka, chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy, who will be retiring at the end of this month after 17 productive years as chair of the department. This week I am pleased to announce that recently promoted Professor of Occupational Therapy Dr. Sarah Nielsen […]
The Office of the Dean is inviting everyone to a retirement reception in honor of Dr. Stephen Tinguely on Monday, Jan. 9, from 3 – 4:30 p.m. in the West Atrium at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. A longtime clinical faculty member in the School’s Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Tinguely has also […]
We just received the long-awaited findings of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) regarding the accreditation of our medical education program that leads to the M.D. degree, and the news is wonderful! We have been granted continued full accreditation for an eight-year term (the maximum permitted under LCME rules) with the next full survey […]
Given the current apparent transition of COVID-19 in our region from a pandemic to an endemic situation (meaning that while COVD-19 has not disappeared, it no longer is associated with widespread, rapid, and potentially debilitating community spread), it would appear to be an appropriate time to further modify the School’s pandemic mitigation policy. To this […]